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Sounds good, especially since they may be getting thermally limited if folding on the CPU at the same time. I get more PPD from folding on both than from folding on just GPU or just CPU (not nearly as much as the sum of the two, but still pretty good). I'm glad I made this request! Now my little lap...

If you recover from a crash, sometimes the v8 client will give you nonsensical performance estimates. I've had a CPU that only gets 200-400k PPD show me that it's getting nearly a billion PPD after a crash and estimated completion of the 12 hour WU in mere minutes. I think it happens because it thin...

Here is some data on PCIe bandwidth utilization for a 4090 Mobile (8x PCIe 4.0 connection). Not quite a 5080, but in the same league compared to anything from the PCIe 3.0 era. $ nvidia-smi dmon -i 0 -s tcu -c 40 # gpu rxpci txpci mclk pclk sm mem enc dec jpg ofa # Idx MB/s MB/s MHz MHz % % % % % % ...

I've tested it with non-FAH CUDA utilities but I'd like to test with FAH now. Could someone give me two very small GPU WUs' wudata_01.dat files, ones small enough that they won't even utilize half of a 3090 or 4090 Mobile's CUDA cores?

I suppose if they're being used as heat, it's still infinitely more FLOPS than the resistive coil in a space heater! But be sure they are able to return WUs before the timeout ends, not only before the deadline ends. If the timeout expires, then even though you get the base points, the work is &quo...

I had installed amdgpu-install_6.2.60203-1_all.deb which automatically added both of those. It doesn't pull in the driver which is as you say a kernel module already included (thank god they don't do dkms). It just pulls in some tools I think. I can remove it anyway. Should it be as simple as this? ...

For Debian 12, should this be as simple as adding this to the sources to extend the guide ultimate v8 guide, just replacing the 6.3.4 with 6.4?

Oh okay. When I downloaded the new gpus.json they weren't 9 yet.

Species 9 is for full blown desktop chips. The only place 780M could fit was among low end RDNA2. If that particular PCI ID didn't have 740M included (thanks AMD, btw), 760M and 780M could have easily gone to species 9 How come 5711 and 6400 weren't bumped to 9 then? Those are only 760M and 780M, w...

muziqaz wrote: ↑Mon Apr 14, 2025 5:28 pm Delete GPUs.json from your fah-client directory and restart fah-client. It should download new gpus.json
oh, what is your 780M's PCI ID?

Vendor: 4098
Device: 5567

It's folding 16580 now and it seems to be doing well.

I suppose if they're being used as heat, it's still infinitely more FLOPS than the resistive coil in a space heater! But be sure they are able to return WUs before the timeout ends, not only before the deadline ends. If the timeout expires, then even though you get the base points, the work is "...

Like muzikaz says, there's not much reason to invest in them. But let me put into perspective just how much better you can do. The Pi4 has four ARM Cortex-A72 cores. That's only 13.5 GFLOPS (the GPU is 32 GFLOPS but it is unused). That's not very much. And it consumes 12 watts to do that (2.7 GFLOPS...

I can do any benchmarks and tests on my 780M if you need. It's a pretty powerful GPU and runs circles (>4x more PPD) around GPUs that get much more work, even Nvidia GPUs. It never gets anywhere close to the timeout or deadline for any project thrown at it, even when running at 75% power.

The 780M is currently species 4. I believe it should be increased to species 5. Despite being crippled by OpenCL, it consistently earns 400k PPD, and sometimes up to 800k PPD, even when it's sharing its TDP with a hungry CPU and its shader clock is limited to 75% maximum. Its FP32 performance, 8.9 T...

I have a species 4 AMD GPU (I thought it was species 3 but apparently not) and it's getting no projects at all. Despite being crippled by OpenCL this GPU gets nearly half a million PPD. And yet my ancient GTX mobile GPU that gets under 100k PPD gets work whenever it wants it. I'll write a request to...